Aid to Egypt comes back first. I looked this all up yesterday and we send them a bit over one billion.
I remember back to the 60s when many of the nations in the Middle-East were anti-American and violently anti-Israel.
What we have managed to build today is a region where we have working relationships with most of those same nations.
No, they don’t see eye to eye with us on all issues. This is a good example of one of them.
While I do support Trump’s plan to hold nation’s to account, I think we need to be equally wise in implementation.
The goal needs to be to at least sustain relations or build them further, not destroy them.
That should help that deficit the Democrats are suddenly concerned about.